Box or carton



Jan. 19 1926.

E. S. HILL BOX OR CARTON Filed June a. 1922 Patented Jan. 19, 1926.

UNITED STATESFP'ATE-NTZ OFF-ICE.

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Application filed June 8,

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that .1, ELLQN S..H1LL, acitizen of the United States, residing'at New Hampton, in the county ofBelknap. a and State of New Hampshire, have in.

vented new and useful Improvements in Boxes or Cartons, pf which thefollowing is a specification, This invention relates to boxes or cartonsI made from paper-board, and has [for its object to provide a box, theside walls of -which are inexpensively stiflenedand rein forced toresist crushing pressure exerted downward on the top-of thebox. A Theinvention is embodied 'n" the improvements hereinafter. described andclaimed. Of the accompanging drawings forming a part of this specication, v

Figure 1 is a plan. view of a box blank embodying the invention;

Figure 2 is aperspective view of a box formed from the blan'lc shown byFigure 1. .'1he, same reference characters indicate the same parts inallglof' the figures. v

A box blankembodying the invention is referably composed of a singleone-piece Body of paper-board, and two stifiening and reinforcingpieces. The body includes 3 a bottom portion 12,, two side wall portions13, having flaps 14:: at their opposite ends, and two end wall portions15. The body islcreasedor otherwise adapted to be bent alongpredetermined lines, as indicated by dotted lines 16 in Figure. 1. Thereinforcing ieces 17 also referably of paperboar are, glued to t e sidewall portions 13 while .thejbody is flat,fand are of substantially thesame width as the ort'ions 4.0 13, although they may be cons derablyshorter, as shown.

The operations of bending the thus completed blank onthe lines15, and ofgluing the flaps 14 to the portions 15, form' the box shown by Figure 2,the, reinforcingpieces being on the inner side of the box wall, andextending from the bottom to the upper edgeof the wall,.so that-theportions 1 13 are adapted to support, 'a considerable --tions ofone-piece construction devoi 1., a conform-non of NEW Yonx 1922. Seriala... 566,680.

pressure from ;or buckled.

The end wall portions-15 are above, without being crushedcorr'espondlngl reinforced by the flaps. 14, cemented to eir innersides. 1 Y Y i he blank shownby Figure 1, constitutes,

an article of manufacture, which may be supplied to a user, who convertsit into the open box'shown by Figure 2, thebox being reinforced both atits side and end wall portions,--so that the wall is adapted to supportacover" and pressure exerted thereon.

' Owing to the fact that, the reinforcing pieces 17 are-ofsubstantiallythe same width as the side wall portions 13, the loweredges of the 'reinforcingportionsbear on the bottom' portion 12, andtheir upper edges are flush with the'upper edges of the sidewallportions, in the completed box, as shown by Figure 2.The'reinforcingzpieces, there,-

' fore," constitute struts adapted to prevent- 7 edgewise. compressionof the side wall portions by downward pressure thereon.

, 1. As an article of manufacture, a foldable box or'carton blankcomprising a bot- 7 tom portion, side and end'wall portions ex tendln gfrom the corresponding edges of the. bottom portion, each of said sidepor-- tions being of one-piece construction, and reinforcing I portionsatt eir mid length, said reinforcmg pieces terminating a substantialdistam-e short of the ends of'the said side wall po 'tions, whereby saidreinforcing pieces constitute struts adapted to prevent edgewisecompression of the side wall portions. by downward pressure on ,theupperedges thereof.

'2. A paper box having side wall or;-

o folds or pleats, the mid-length portions of said -si de} walls havingseparate reinforcing, anels of pa or stock adhesively secure"thereto,sai panels being of.consid-- erably less length then saidwalls.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my' signature.

ieces secured to the side wall i

